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Engineers at Lockheed Martin and NASA breathed life into the next Orion crew module when they powered up the spacecraft for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Designed for human spaceflight, this Orion ...

Exploding stars lit the way for our understanding of the universe, but researchers are still in the dark about many of their features.

"Diamond rain" that may shower through the layers of Neptune and Uranus has been created in a laboratory for the first time, according to a new study.

A team of European scientists analyzed five years worth of Mars Express data, which revealed interesting things about how its atmosphere interacts with solar wind The post Mars Express Captures Mars’ Moving Bow Shock a...

NASA has selected Jacobs Technology of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide a broad spectrum of engineering and scientific support services at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and the Michoud Assembly Faci...

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk made public the first official photo of the commercial space company's spacesuit design with a post on Instagram today. He indicated he'll have more details soon and said this first 'reve...

Overnight, robotics controllers extracted a new astrophysics experiment from the trunk of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft. The Canadarm2 will hand off the new astronomy gear to the Japanese robotic arm which will then inst...

Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own g...

A new experiment conducted by an international team of scientists has recreated the "diamond rains" thought to exist inside Uranus and Neptune The post Hallelujah, It’s Raining Diamonds! Just like the Insides of Uranus...

SpaceX's chief executive Elon Musk gave a sneak peek Wednesday at the California-based company's futuristic new spacesuit.

Sundown sparks blustery snowstorms in the Red Planet’s lower atmosphere --

To the unaided eye the famous, bright star Antares shines with a strong red tint in the heart of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion)....

Are the stars in ultra-diffuse galaxies gravitationally bound due to an especially high dark matter content? Our solar system is located amid an enormous galaxy composed of billions of stars, the Milky Way. About 3,000 s...

Bright shooting stars are one of nature's great wonders. Like the one in the main image, which was visible from Devon in the south-west of England in June, these fireballs are caused by space rocks hitting Earth's atmosp...

Forty years ago, NASA launched two robotic explorers on a mission to travel farther than any craft had gone before, and today, they continue to be our most distant emissaries.

As NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson prepares to return to Earth after a record-shattering stay aboard the International Space Station, the storytelling platform Makers is honoring her achievements by inaugurating her into a ...

Last evening, the Eclipse Megamovie project posted a preview of the photos of the total solar eclipse submitted by a cast of some 1,500 volunteers spread out along the path of totality.

In a 1,300-word letter addressed to Poroshenko Tuesday, the Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov laid out his government's defense against a controversial New York Times...

A solar eclipse, dark matter and the cautionary tale of theplanet that wasn’t there --

For some, the sun disappeared behind the moon in yesterday's eclipse for a few minutes, but the 13 people living in Antarctica's Concordia research station had to cope without sunlight for much longer. This sunset pictur...

Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine, or sunlight reflected by the planet.

A strange dead star may be the surviving remnant of what essentially was a miniature supernova, a new study finds.